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At Go Chicago Golf, group and private indoor lessons are available year-round so students can hone their craft even in winter's foulest depths. Players take most of their lessons in front of a projection screen that simulates a sunny day out on the links. They can play their choice of 9 or 18 holes on a 100- or 300-yard practice course, or, if they fear spending another 20 years trapped in an arcade game, practice on the learning center's nonvirtual targets. Students can also use an onsite video-analysis room to objectively check their swings and postures.

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Fresh off touring with Mumford and Sons, The Apache Relay has a new single drawing buzz from Rolling Stone. We talked to them about their evolving sound and jumping off roofs.
In 2011, The Apache Relay relied on their fans and a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a cross-country tour. But things have since changed for the Nashville-based quartet. As their popularity has grown, they’ve scored festival gigs at Bonnaroo and Newport Music Festival, toured with Mumford and Sons, and debuted the new single from their upcoming second album on Rolling Stone.
The song, “Katie Queen of Tennessee,” exhibits a stylistic shift from the band’s folkier first album, American Nomad. RS writer John Gentile describes a “Phil Spector-ish wall of sound” layered with strings and choral voices, all tinged with a dash of soul. Although the band hasn’t abandoned its Americana sensibilities, the more complex arrangements continue throughout the entirety of their self-titled record, which drops April 22.
I recently spoke with keyboardist/guitarist/mandolin-ist Brett Moore about The Apache Relay’s new sound, but you can hear some of the tunes yourself when the band plays the Bottom Lounge (1375 W. Lake St.) on Saturday, February 22. Tickets are just $10.
GROUPON: Do you think touring with Mumford and Sons informed your fuller, denser sound on this new album? If not, what other influences helped shape this record?
BRETT MOORE: We love those guys to death—[they’re] genuinely some of the best dudes we know—but I don't feel like their music informed the album in any way. This record was influenced more by Shelby Lynne's first record [Sunrise], Jessie Baylin's magnificent Little Spark, [and] the musicianship of Richard Swift and BevMo.
G: How did fiddler/keyboardist Kellen Wenrich end up jumping off the roof into a pool for the “Katie Queen of Tennessee” music video? And what made you decide to use that image on the cover of your new album?
BM: Making the record was an incredibly educational experience, and we grew a lot from that, but also experienced the residual growing pains. We would come back to that house [we] were renting after stressful days in the studio and try to lighten the mood a little bit by doing things like jumping off roofs. Somehow that image of Kellen tells the story of that time in our lives on many levels.
G: After performing more than 100 shows in 2011, you guys are no strangers to being on the road. On long drives, who gets to pick the music? Are there ever disagreements?
BM: It's usually up to the driver, but the stereo is only up front (no speakers in the back). A lot of bros get lost in Headphone Land on those long drives, so it's a non-issue. Sometimes we need a morale boost, though, so we've got a little UE Boombox that we'll use to bump "The Touch of Venus" by Patrice Holloway.
G: What three bands would you make sure to put on an ultimate road-trip mixtape?
BM: Big Star, Marvin Gaye, Norman Blake.
G: You mentioned in a Fuse interview that you took your name from the contest at the end of Heavyweights. What other 1990s movies had a big impact on you?
BM: Troll 2 and Ken Burns's Baseball.
Photo by Melissa Madison Fuller.

In 2011, Odd Future had a major style moment inspired by a very minor accessory: socks. The hip-hop collective’s leader, Tyler, the Creator, really digs them. (You can see him really digging them while crowdsurfing here, while counting money here, and while dressing up like a watermelon here.) Tyler’s enthusiasm has turned him into a sock kingpin. Odd Future socks, part of the group’s larger fashion line, are sold at PacSun and other mall-friendly retailers. On co-member Earl Sweatshirt’s “Whoa,” Tyler raps that he made a quarter million off of socks, and that song came out in 2013. Presumably he’s made more since then.
Socks may seem like a weird entrée into the world of fashion, but OF’s members don’t live by fashion conventions. Each member’s personal style seems genuinely personal, whether it’s Frank Ocean looking dapper in buttoned-up shirts and cardigans, Earl Sweatshirt embodying casualness, or lone female member Syd tha Kyd rocking her signature androgynous look.
Below, we’ve compiled some photos of OF artists, and the conventional fashion wisdom they’re throwing out the window in each one. Because the members of OF do their own thing, even when that means hanging out with a masked dog.
Conventional wisdom: Wear a stellar outfit to stand out from the crowd.
Reason to throw it out the window: Sometimes, fashion is a team sport, and the most stellar outfit is the one that lets your friends’ outfits shine. Earl’s ho-hum hoodie shows he plays well with others, fashion-wise, even when the others are weird gremlins who refuse to fully turn the lights on.
Conventional wisdom: Don’t frown. You never know who’s falling in love with your smile.
Reason to throw it out the window: As Frank shows, instead you can just drape a scarf over your entire head, including your face. You never know who’s falling in love with your scarf.
Conventional wisdom: Wearing head-to-toe brights and mixing patterns is too much.
Reason to throw it out the window: A unifying base bright (in this case, yellow) and a stretch of solid color (in this case, Tyler’s T-shirt) make this look fine, and not just like a random pile of clothes. With confidence, you can wear a random pile of clothes, too!
Conventional wisdom: No pain, no gain.
Reason to throw it out the window: Syd's outfit looks super comfortable—her jeans are looser than some of Tyler’s—and it totally suits her. She didn’t even go through the (very minor) pain of removing her key carabiner.
Conventional wisdom: Don’t be too matchy-matchy.
Reason to throw it out the window: It turns out that if you’re wearing a turtleneck with a matching v-neck, all you need to do is throw on a gold chain and add some maniacal laughter. There's no chance of seeming prissy now!
Conventional wisdom: Adults can’t rock kids’ clothes.
Reason to throw it out the window: Earl’s cloud-print shirt says he has nothing to prove—and if he tucked it in, it would arguably be business casual. What could be more adult than that? Even Frank’s Thor mask feels grown up, paired with a tasteful button-up and a gold watch. Kids can’t tell time.
Find socks worth pulling all the way up on Groupon Goods.
Photo credit from top to bottom: Photo by Terry Richardson; still from Pharrell’s 1pm “Happy” video; still from Earl Sweatshirt’s "Hive" video; photo from Frank Ocean’s Tumblr; still from Tyler, the Creator’s "Tamale" video; still from The Internet’s "Dontcha" video; still from Hodgy, Domo Genesis, and Tyler, the Creator’s "Rella" video; photo from Syd tha Kyd's Facebook page.

Playing in a new-wave band means Maja Ivarsson spends her free time just chilling out. So she picked a handful of songs for staying at home.
Swedish new-wavers The Sounds named their latest album Weekend for a simple reason: “We want people to feel like they do on the weekend,” explained lead singer Maja Ivarsson.
For Ivarsson, however, proper weekends don’t really exist. “I totally understand that people who have day jobs will enjoy the weekend and go out and party and get drunk, then go back to their job. For us, it’s never been like that. We started out in high school, so I have no idea what it’s like.”
Seeing as how her free time involves laidback activities such as watching True Detective and doing housework, we asked Ivarsson to pick her favorite songs for the homebody in all of us.
For driving home: Beach House – “Myth”
“My boyfriend and I only listen to it in the car, so I often forget the name of the song. But I always ask him to put it on, so that’s a sign that it’s really, really, really great.”
For enjoying the winter: Leonard Cohen – “Famous Blue Raincoat”
Coincidentally, Deer Tick guitarist Ian O’Neil also picked this soothing five minutes of melancholy for our seasonal playlist last November. “That’s so cool!” Ivarsson exclaimed when we told her.
For doing housework: Bronski Beat – “Hit That Perfect Beat”
“It’s so fast and so crazy. That puts some fire in my butt for sure.”
For doing dishes: Roy Orbison – “Only The Lonely”
Although doing the dishes technically counts as housework, Ivarsson prefers something soft and sweet when scrubbing pots and pans.
For getting ready to go out: Turbonegro – “The Age of Pamparius”
“We used to listen to a lot of Turbonegro while we were getting ready for a show. It gets you going and puts you in a happy mood. Hank von Helvete’s a great guy, even though he’s not the singer anymore.”
For getting metafictional: The Strokes – “Reptilia”
“All of us in the band love The Strokes. It was a good time when we were on tour with them. They’re the band that we’ve toured with that I’d still listen to either way.”
The Sounds play The Metro (3730 N. Clark St.) on Wednesday, April 2, at 8 p.m. Blondfire and Strange Talk open. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased here.
Photograph: Per Kristiansen

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